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Teeth for forces on Bangla border
The security set-up along the border with Bangladesh has been rejigged with a record number of battalions of the Border Security Force being deployed. ...  | Read.. 
 
Tharoor off to a good beginning
Shashi Tharoor, India’s candidate for the post of UN secretary-general, who entered the race two years after some of his rivals, scored an impressive second place in the Security Council’s first straw poll for ...  | Read.. 
 
Young Lanka caught between delusion & a deity
In a seminar hall at the prestigious Peradeniya University in this former capital of Sri Lanka, students, teachers and Buddhist clerics assemble to answer queries from visiting Indian journalists. Most of them expectedly ...  | Read.. 
 
Karat for Castro 80th birthday party
CPM and CPI leaders on guest list with Marquez and Maradona
Fidel Castro will celebrate his birthday for the first time on August 13, when he turns 80. And Prakash Karat will be there. ...  | Read.. 
 
Agreement on battle rules: Jagmohan Dalmiya (right) and his challenger Prasun Mukherjee at Eden Gardens after meeting the CAB election observer ...  | Read
 
 
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JASWANT SINGH
RBI lights rate fire, loan pot on the boil
If you are planning to take a loan to buy a flat or a car, you had better apply right away as b ...  | Read..
Mountain out of a ‘mole’
The expected revelation of the identity of the “mole” to the Prime Minister did not c ...  | Read..
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Raze Dawood mall? Cops duck again
Mumbai police do not have the manpower ' or is it the mettle? ' to tackle Dawood Ibrahim.   | Read.. 
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Election action hits the club
Assembly elections in Bengal being such a yawn, the real poll battles are being fought in the...   | Read.. 
BengalMore.. 
Another 5000 acres on Salim plate
The government will acquire another 5,000 acres for the Salim Group at Kukrahati in East...   | Read.. 
North BengalMore.. 
Private drive out of cash quicksand
The North Bengal State Transport Corporation (NBSTC) has decided to hand over 19 of its...   | Read.. 
OpinionMore.. 
Beyond the ceasefire
The hostilities in west Asia make it imperative that the prime minister, Manmohan Singh travel to...   | Read.. 
SportsMore.. 
CA offers 3 venues in September
Cricket Australia (CA) has offered three venues for an 'off-shore' ODI face-off featuring India...   | Read.. 
InternationalMore.. 
Chain blackout fear stalks US
As the death toll from a scorching heat wave rose and record demand tested the state's power supply,...   | Read.. 
BusinessMore.. 
Rate shield to block price punch
Yaga Venugopal Reddy, governor of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), is known to deliver surprises.   | Read.. 
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Beauty runs into home backlash
- A militant Islamic group has filed a police report against Indonesia's Miss Universe candidate,...   | Read..